sorry for taking so long to update again but I forgot how the original battle went so I had to look it up and learn it all over again before having to add a few more things.
also he is stronger but still has limits, talking about box dude here, so ye
hope you enjoy this chapter but fair warning that the battle isn't that good but if you have some advice for it than that would be appreciated.
enough talking, you're here for the chapter. enjoy
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Chatterbox, it was a new rapture that has been recently found and was a rapture that the CEO Syuen wanted to capture. There wasn't a lot of information on it so people that had been sent to find it didn't know what to really look for, the behavior of said rapture was also not known.
This was all the information that I had kept in my mind while looking for the rapture so it wasn't surprising for me to not expect to suddenly be attacked by this bastard.
Getting back up, I looked at the thing that had launched me away.
The rapture was tall, about 3(9) to 4(13) meters(feet), and had an appearance similar to that of a gorilla but just a lot more bigger and had a sharp metal tail that was about the same length of his body, possibly larger. He had 4 rockets on its back. Its face showed a large, uncanny grin on it showing its joy as it stood behind the commander.
The commander looked at me with worry. "Are you okay?!" he shouted, I looked over to him before giving a slight nod.
This amount of damage wasn't something I was used to but I was able to apply reinforcement on myself before being launched even if it wasn't great.
"Hello." The rapture suddenly spoke. "I want to learn about the one in front of us." chatterbox said with a voice that was deep and rough.
The other's looked at the rapture in surprise with its ability to talk.
"I-It can talk?!" Anis shouted, saying the thoughts of the rest.
"Commander get behind!" Rapi said while running towards the commander. Chatterbox looked over before raising its foot and kicking Rapi away, launching her into the ruins.
"Mihara, her feet!" Yuni said while looking at Rapi as the feet of rapi seemed to be severely damaged.
"Chatterbox." Mihara said while looking at the rapture.
"Don't move." it said to them. "Can you help me figure out who this is in front of us?" he asked.
"You're…." Anis said slowly but not continuing.
Mihara started to glow blue before suddenly clawing at her own abdomen.
~BANG~
The sound of Chatterbox slightly rumbling. It coughed out.
"Yuni." Mihara said.
"Yep, it has been turned off." Yuni answered.
"My eyes?" It said while looking around. "Is my vision being blocked?"
"It should be easy to finish him off now." Mihara spoke out to the others. "Okay, now is the time to catch it."
Anis smirked before speaking out. "He looks like he is slowing down. I'll say he is about done for."
"Heheh, then let's speed it up then." Mihara said with a small sadistic smile.
"Exchanging senses." chatterbox said before grunting and tearing off his own arm.
"Huh?!" Mihara said with worry.
Chatterbox continued to tear off a couple of chunks of flesh from his body. "Hahah, delightful." the grin on his face grew larger. "Destroying my own body…. It's...bliss. Hahahah." The laugh of his grew with malice and joy as he watched the arm of his that was missing. "Come now feel the pain as your flesh is torn asunder."
Mihara was in obvious pain as she held her arm tightly while she was groveling on the floor. She moaned in pain from the sense of her arm being ripped off.
"Let me see how long you can last, Human impostors!" chatterbox shouted at Mihara.
Mihara just continued to cough and moan from the pain before finally collapsing from the pain.
"M-Mihara!" Yuni yelled as she saw Mihara laying on the ground twitching. She turned her gaze to chatterbox with hate. "I'll Kill you!" she shouted.
Chatterbox moved and attacked Yuni. "When vision is impaired, attack the previously seen location of the enemy. Understood that impostors" he said. Yuni was launched towards me, so I caught her in my grip. Looking at her, I could see how her arms were somewhat broken as well as her face and body being filled with scratches.
Creekk~
The sound of creaking could be heard from the body of Chatterbox and the chunks of his body that was missing could be seen repairing itself.
"Self-repair?! Raptures can do that!" Anis yelled while looking at Chatterbox repairing itself.
"Human join me." Chatterbox asked while looking at the direction of the commander. "Lend me your ear. I mean you no harm."
"No thanks. Not in a listening mood." the commander said with a brave face despite still shaking.
"So be it then." Chatterbox seemed to be getting ready. "No matter. Even if I have no limbs, my functions remain unaffected." he smiled creepily.
Suddenly someone appeared in front of the commander. "I wouldn't let you do anything to the commander." they said.
It was Rapi who had appeared. The rapture was surprised by Rapi appearing.
"How can an impostor get up so quickly?!" Chatterbox asked, but he was surprised by this but suddenly. "Oh, HAHAHHAH, you're a Fairytale model aren't you. Red riding hood, correct?" his laugh sounded out from how husky it sounded before asking Rapi this question. Rapi stared at Chatterbox with uncomfortableness by this sudden question.
"Hahahah, it's my lucky day." chatterbox laughed with a twisted sense of joy for learning about the supposed model of Rapi.
Rapi turned to the commander with a worried but determined look. "Commander…." she looked at Afer with a calm look. "I'll buy you sometime, just go! Get out of here!" she said.
Afer looked at Rapi with a distraught look but quickly composed himself and looked determined at her. "If we fight, we fight together!" he said to her but she shakes her head.
"No, we're in no condition to protect you anymore." she told the commander with a calm face. "Please head back and report…..that there is a rapture capable of human speech."
The commander, distraught, looked at Rapi before finally nodding and started to move away but chatterbox noticed this and didn't seem to want the commander to leave so he quickly moved and struck the commander throwing him through the air before falling and landing on the ground.
The commander tried to get up but his right leg was twisted and contorted, something he didn't seem to notice as he tried to get up. "!!" A noise came out of him as he looked down and saw his broken leg.
"Commander!! / You'll pay for that!" Rapi and Anis shouted.
"Oh, I hate it when they try and slink off like that." chatterbox said while his tail moved around similar to a snake. "Now, come and face me."
Rapi turned over to Anis and Neon. "...Anis, Neon," she looked at them with an upset look. "I'm sorry….. but you have to keep fighting." she told them.
"Dammit!" Anis yelled but was ready to continue fighting.
".....okay." Neon just seemed nervous to continue but had her gun ready to continue.
I finally reached them as I had been sent rather far from them so it had taken a while to reach them as I didn't want to waste cursed energy but didn't expect this much to happen. Rapi turned to me to ask but I just nodded at her, signaling that I could fight.
"The impostors wish to fight." Chatterbox looked at us with a twisted amusement. "Fine then, I'll shall enjoy tearing you apart."
His tail quickly wiped at Rapi, as she was the closest, but I quickly moved forward with enhanced limbs and caught the attack. The attack was heavy and almost launched me away again.
"Huh?" Chatterbox looked at me with surprise, probably wanted to ask me about it but was quickly shot at by the others. He quickly moved out of the way, jumping away from us.
I quickly chased after him as the others shot at him.
He jumped around the place, not letting the others bullets hit him. I was chasing him around trying to hit him or at least grab something from him to at least stagger him.
He jumped off a building, dodging, as the bullets flew over him but I was there and was able to throw an enhanced punch at him causing him to stagger and slightly be pushed back letting the others land some bullets. He quickly gathered himself and struck with his tail again.
This time I jumped over it, he tried to grab me in the air but I kicked it away before using the momentum of the kick to spin around and kick the side of his head, staggering him again.
Using this moment, I opened a tear below him but he somehow sensed it and jumped away. I quickly chased after him again and opened a tear beside me to get out a void arrow.
The noise seemed to attract other raptures to the battle.
"Kenjaku, you continue chasing him, we'll take care of these raptures!!" Rapi yelled at me. I nodded my head and continued the chase.
Chatterbox turned around to me and whipped his tail at me again. I jumped over it before kicking at his head again but he ducked down and threw his fist at me.
I blocked the attack with an enhanced leg but was launched farther up into the air as a result.
Chatterbox quickly jumped up after me and whipped his tail at me again.
I quickly created a tear but he sensed it again somehow and stopped his attack before switching it for a kick. I blocked his attack with my leg again but it launched me farther away from him.
Controlling my landing, I quickly chased after him again.
Once Chatterbox landed, he quickly went over to the raptures and used them as shields to block my path from him while he went for Rapi and the others.
Quickly thinking, I open a tear below the raptures, creating a path forward. Enhancing my legs, I ran as fast as I could, quickly catching up to Chatterbox.
"As suspected." Chatterbox suddenly said before quickly turning around and striking at me with his tail, I was able to lift up my arms and block it but it still launched me away.
"!!" The attack hurt a lot causing me to let out some air from my mouth.
I flew through the air for a bit before finally controlling myself and landing on my feet. Chatterbox had set a trap which I landed in.
Chatterbox quickly came over to the area I had landed, standing in front of me while I was catching my breath. The attack had damaged me badly, causing me to bleed from my arms and have blood drip from my mouth. Chatterbox on the other hand was regenerating from the blows I had landed on him, this seemed to be giving him a twisted joy as his grin grew even larger.
"I am surprised by you." he said while looking at me with his large uncanny grin. "I didn't think that a human would be able to do such things but here we are." He started to walk towards me while talking. "I didn't think a human would be able to damage me to such an extent but now I-" he looked at me, bleeding, and laughed. "Hahahah, - but now I have met you." he then gave out an arm to me. "Join me, I don't wish to continue this when I have met your interesting person." He was in front of me, giving out his arm for me.
I looked at his arm, thinking about the sudden proposal I was given by this thing. I looked up at him before getting back up to my feet. "I, haaaa, I refuse." I told him before moving forward and stabbing the arrow in my hand into his body.
"What!?" he yelled in shock from this sudden action. The arrow was something I had been putting cursed energy into while he was talking to me, he was not suspecting this to happen.
A tear suddenly was created in his torso before closing but the tear had already done the damage, the tear created a large gaping hole from inside him as he looked at me with surprise and the large grin of his to falter as he fell down to the ground. His arm and legs had been affected by the attack as they were barely attached to him.
I looked over to the others and noticed how they had dealt with the raptures that had come. I waved over to them while walking over to them, they looked at me and the body of Chatterbox.
"Yeah!" Anis shouted in joy as I had defeated Chatterbox before rushing forward and hugging me.
I looked at her with surprise before just smiling slightly and patting her on the back. "I did it."
"Good job, Kenjaku." Rapi said to me with a nod before looking over to the body of Chatterbox. "Syuen should be fine with this." she said before looking back at me and just smiling.
"Yeah, you did an amazing job Kenjaku. The way you were chasing him was just awesome." Neon looked at me with amazement.
"I know, but we should help the others first." I tell them with Rapi nodding as well.
"Indeed." Rapi agreed before moving over to the commander.
Anis and Neon respectively went over to Mihara and Yuni, who I had placed down close by.
I looked around the place to make sure no raptures came here.
It didn't take long to gather them and check on them. The commander, while having a broken leg, wasn't something that can't be helped with the things that the Ark has. Mihara was only knocked unconscious with only a few scratches, Yuni on the other hand was more damaged as her legs were rather damaged and her head was blunted inward slightly while her torso was cut and tore apart somewhat. It wasn't the best look but since she was a Nikke, she should be able to be fixed.
Rapi checked over her brain to see if it was damaged, and thankfully, it wasn't damaged from the attack.
"It was lucky that you caught her because if not, she might have not been as lucky." Rapi told me, I just looked at her and nodded but breathed a slight breath of relief.
"Indeed." A raspy voice said behind me. Turning around, I could see the bastard standing back up. His body was repairing itself, slowly but surely, but the hole in his body was still ever present. His arms, while still not well connected to each other, were far better than before, moving slowly to help himself walk. His legs were far better than his arms as he was able to hold himself up the most with it.
The hole in his chest was smaller but was still taking up most of his torso.
"I am surprised that a human was able to do this to me." he started to slowly laugh. "Heheheheheh." he looked at me with a twisted joy. "I see that you wish to not join me so I don't see any reason to leave you alive."
His tail whips itself to me. I wasn't able to defend myself with cursed energy nor dodge it, I was open to the attack that could kill me.
Bang!
The sound of a sniper shot rang out as the tail of Chatterbox was quickly bit away, broken.
I quickly turned my head over to the direction of the shot to see and woman with white hair and jacket holding a giant sniper rifle-
'No, it's more of an anti-ship rifle with its sheer size compared to other sniper rifles.' I thought while looking at her.
"!?" a noise came from Chatterbox as he looked over to his tail. "I'm not healing?" he said out loud. He was looking at his tail which was not repairing itself.
"Just leave it to me." the woman said, looking at us before continuing to shoot at Chatterbox.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Three more shots ring out from her rifle, hitting Chatterbox in the arms and chest that was still connected.
"Aghh…..ugh…A Pilgrim…?" Chatterbox looked at the woman who had appeared.
"Begone you blasphemous creature." she said before shooting again.
Bang!
"The repairing function can't keep up…." He said while looking at her before turning around. "Damn.." he said before running away and disappearing.
"Go home." the white hair said before moving away.
"What just happened?" Anis said with a confused look on her face.